John Carmack writes about his recent experience using Java to write a game for mobile phones. Pretty interesting post.

Feels like I’ve slowly been getting addicted to all that is social software. A while back I started using Flickr and really enjoyed the whole concept of tags (more info here and here). Now, more recently, I’ve been turned on to a couple of other sites that also do the whole tagging thing: del.icio.us and [...]

I’ve been hearing about Ruby for a while now and I’m getting curious enough to wonder if I should dedicate some time to learn it. Learning a new language is always fun but it really comes down to a time thing. One of the things I’m curious to see is whether or not there would [...]

I’ve been meaning to explore del.icio.us for a long time now and never got around to it. Then I saw Jon Udell’s screencast about it and decided to give it a shot. I now intend to give it a real shot. I’ve started building my list of links already. If you’ve never heard of del.icio.us, [...]

One of the reasons Flickr is cool is that ideas like this one can spread like wildfire making for some entertaining browsing of photos. I don’t think I’ll be creating my own “transparent screen” but I did enjoy looking through a bunch of them.

We’ve ended up using Netflix a lot more lately to rent various TV Show DVDs (e.g. Sopranos, The Shield) as well as regular movies. One thing that was always a bit painful was making sure I’d remember to move the next DVD in the series to the top of the queue when I was returning [...]